From what I've heard the days of BURST mining are long gone. When it initially released it was a fairly profitable coin, but not so much anymore.

However I have heard of some users GPU mining Ethereum and making a little bit of money off that, so if you have a couple spare GPU's that might be worth looking into.

If he ships via DHL I suspect the buyer would probably have to pay some import fees. It seems that every time I have a miner shipped with DHL I'm charged $20 to $30 CAD for import fees, so that's something to keep in mind.

If Graffiti still has a copy of the PM in his inbox/outbox, then the PM will still be in the site's database, and the staff should be able to confirm the validity of that screenshot. The other thing that could be done to verify the message is have a trusted party (preferably someone who provides escrow here with a good trust track record) log into Grafitti's account, and see the message for themselves.

Scams aren't moderated here, so scammers aren't banned (unless they're breaking forum rules, but more often than not they don't break the rules of the forum).

If my understanding is correct, the fee is in place to prevent spammers and trolls to come back to the forum and continue breaking rules. To do so, they'd have to send a little bitcoin to the website, and that wouldn't be worth the time of some who've been banned. Like BadBear said though, it's better than a full IP ban, especially if you decide to use the website over Tor or a public VPN.

The signature campaign market is competitive, so if campaigns start to lower their rates then other campaigns will probably do so as well. If it isn't worth your time to participate in a signature campaign, then that's great, you probably shouldn't, but I don't see how signature campaigns are scams. Nobody is forcing you to participate in a campaign so if you don't agree with how they're run, don't participate.

Please further explain how they're scams, because most participants know exactly how much they'll be paid for their work before participating, so I think that's completely fair. I suspect that posting rates have dropped because referral rates from signature campaign rates have probably dropped as well in the past few months, so the advertising isn't as effective. A few campaigns have closed in the past couple months because signature advertising wasn't effective for them, so it would make sense that clicks from signatures are down as well.

Yeah, Electrum started to implement 13 word seeds in the 2.x versions, however the 1.x versions use 12 word seeds.

OP, what version of Electrum are you using? If you're using a 1.x version you won't be able to recover a 13 word seed, similarly to how you wouldn't be able to recover a 12 word seed with Electrum 2.x.

The price recovered quickly from the low of $162 @ BitFinex, but it's still lower than it was pre-crash ($235 vs $255). Not sure what charts you're looking at, but it looks like the price is slowly climbing, at least at BitFinex, BTC-e and Bitstamp.

On /r/Bitcoin there's a post mentioning that a single user on BitFinex sold of 20,000 of the 30,000 BTC sold during that quick crash, so it sounds like the other 10k were lost due to margin trading, and people panic selling as well.

I'm guessing there are some pretty frustrated people right now who just learnt a difficult lesson about margin trading. On another note though, it was amazing to see how quickly the price dropped. I was lucky to be watching Bitcoin Wisdom right as the price dropped to $162 and then make its way back up to "normal levels" again.

No worries, however your post made me realize that for some reason you weren't slotted in on the spreadsheet. You've been slotted in and your post count updated.

He posted that signature earlier in this thread so he is indeed the original owner of the account. You can see proof of this bitcoin address being used by bigjme in his signature here.

I think he might have sent BadBear one with his email address included, just because of the wording in his message below.

Negative trust left on the account. Let me know when you're in control of the account again and I'll remove the negative trust left. But now that you've sent BadBear a message you've basically done all you can, and I wouldn't worry about the hacker doing anything on your account now with the negative trust. However be sure to let us know when you get back into your account.

If the starting bid for both accounts is 0.6 BTC then that's definitely a fair starting point, but if it's 0.6 BTC per account that's way too high. Even if an account had outstanding post quality I think you'd have trouble auctioning it off with a starting bid that high.

That's a very high starting bid. From what I've seen, Hero accounts usually sell for between 0.4 and 0.6 BTC, so you might want to drop that starting bid by quite a bit. Also, you have no mention of when the auction ends.

If my understanding is correctly, the forum belongs to theymos and he is ultimately the one who makes decisions regarding the website. As for the donations, yes, although people donated to the forum theymos decides where the donations will go, and right now it sounds like a decent portion of the donations are going towards developing new forum software. The same goes for /r/Bitcoin, he's the administrator there and decides what content will be displayed.

200 days is indeed too soon for the halving. It should happen almost a year from now, according to this website. So OP should be able to make a full ROI on his gear (if the calculators are fairly accurate in predicting difficulty changes).

I think you're onto a good idea, but it would get a little annoying for users who do a ton of trades (Blazedout419 for example) because they'd be getting a lot of notifications whenever a user they sent positive trust to changes their password.

I think a better idea would be notifying everyone who left positive trust for a user, if that user changes their password more than once every 12 or 24 hours. Because it seems often when an account is sold the password is changed at least twice in less than 6 hours: once when the seller sends the account details and then twice when the new buyer secures the account for themselves. Something like that might be a better idea because it wouldn't be as annoying as getting a notification every password change, but would still provide useful information to users who have sent positive feedback.

But why would you edit those old posts then with a new address? Why not just post your new address in this thread and leave the old posts as is? If you're editing old posts and changing the addresses posted that looks very suspicious.

It was actually about 3 months ago that the forum was hacked. On May 23rd theymos announnced that password hashes and emails had been compromised.

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I'm going to have to deny you due to poor English, and lack of constructive posts.

Denied due to lack of constructive posts.

Denied due to poor English and lack of constructive posts.

Confirmed, you're slotted in as a Full Member. Since you're wearing the Hero signature, if someone drops out of a Hero slot I'll slot you in for it.